Mr. Leon Strickland Jones

Leon S. Jones is a partner and co-founder of the law firm of Jones & Walden, LLC in Atlanta and concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors? rights and general business litigation. Before forming Jones & Walden, LLC, he worked at such Georgia firms as Arnall, Golden & Gregory; Burton& Anderson; and Lawson, Davis, Pickren & Seydell. Mr. Jones has served as lead counsel in numerous commercial trials and evidentiary hearings. He also has extensive experience in post-judgment collection matters. Mr. Jones has litigated in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern, Middle andSouthern Districts of Georgia, and has lectured extensively regarding bankruptcy and related litigation, speaking often to various trade groups on issues involving bankruptcy-related topics with a focus on individual chapter 11 cases and fraudulent transfer law. He was selected as a member of the Order ofBarristers and the Joseph Henry Lumpk in American Inn of court. Mr. Jones received his B.A. in 1985 in economics and political science from the University of Georgia, and his J.D. in 1998 from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as executive chairman of the Moot Court Board, as a member of the Grey?s Inn Moot Court Team and as a member of the Jessup Competitive Moot Court Team.He also served on the editorial board of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.